COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

1. WATER PROJECT
Passion to see communities get transformed is what drives us, suffering and struggle can be minimized, development will be actualized.
Providing clean water to our communities is an area that will revive and redeem our communities from lack of clean and safe water for home use, many will be saved from contracting water related diseases.
According to research, Uganda out of its 45 million people, 38million people (83% of the population) lack access to a reliable, safely managed source of water and 7million people (17%) lack access to improved sanitation.
When you walk through the rural communities in which children of five years and above have to walk several kilometers to a water stream that is most often dirty and is being shared by animals and what about the adults and most painful the elderly who have no helpers at home that walk for hours to get some water to use at home. This is a huge hindrance to improved quality of life in our communities. Our vision is to eliminate water related diseases in these impoverished communities by water wells that are easily reachable, safe to transform our communities.

What will be the outcomes;
 Health conditions that are water related will be eliminated
 School turn ups will improve because this is one of the hindrance for kids failing to study as they walk many kilometers to fetch water for home use in the process they are delayed for school.
 - Life will improve
 - Sanitation in homes will improve remarkably
 - Development and hence transformation in our communities.

We are partnering with water drilling companies to make this dream a reality, to have a fully established well that will serve the community for many years. Our role as STF is to supervise and ensure that the work is done with utmost integrity and there is accountability for every dollar spent along and also to send reports to every donor who participates in changing lives in Uganda.

2. COMPOST TOILET PROJECT
The project is located in Mukono district near Lake Victoria, the area of operation is composed of eight villages with a total population of about 20,000people. People living in this area are of low income status and some of them living in abject poverty, the greatest burden this community is lack of adequate toilet facilities and therefore, the greatest threat to human life is that people find themselves doing open defecation and the fecal matter is carried into the lake, others have pit latrines and because the water table is very near sometimes the pits easily flood and the contents drain into the water body, this makes water increasingly unsafe for human use. Water borne diseases are common in this area. The community is depending on fishing and agriculture.
By facilitating access to waterless toilets in these communities, we can help provide safe sanitation and new source of earth fertilizer for crops (humanure)
Establishment of proper sanitation significantly reduces diseases like cholera, diarrhea, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis A, Polio, child mortality rate, pollution of water ways and lakes and increases privacy safety (violence and rape) dignity and school children attendance will increase, collection and recycling process creates jobs hence improving economy.
Environment
Pollution of the environment by human wastes is a major issue in many parts of the world.

Why compost toilets vs other toilets;
1. Allows recycling of the human wastes
2. Compost toilets are comfortable and can be used by everyone.
3. Unlike pit latrines compost toilets do not have a bad ordour
4. Pit latrines are expensive to build and maintain, emptying pit latrines is expensive and therefore in such poverty stricken areas people do not have any place of convenience
5. Ecological sanitation has the power to combat climate change via three mechanisms;
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions compared to alternative sanitation practices, offsetting alternative synthetic fertilizer use and reducing carbon in the soil through composting.

Recent research suggests that composting technology emits to 92% less greenhouse than traditional waste stabilization ponds and that improved management could further reduce emissions

The use of compost for reforestation stabilizes soils helping to prevent floods and mudslides.

Providing a clean, safe environment where children and adults can live, grow and thrive without being sick and dying from preventable diseases like cholera, dysentery and other diseases that stem from very poor hygiene and disposal of human wastes.
we believe this situation can be changed,
Through;
1. Proper human waste disposal by providing compost toilets
2. Sensitizing and health educating the masses about sanitation.
3. Availing them clean and safe water.